CaptainSlow's Ride - NOT 56K Friendly!

[CaptainSlow]

So I finally got some time to work on the car and the exhaust was first on my list. The goal with my exhaust setup was to retain the power and fuel economy increases seen after installing the header, but loose the terible noise made by the stock muffler. I removed my header a couple months ago until I had the parts to do the exhaust properly, I just reinstalled my OBX header a week ago after getting all the parts needed. I had an exhaust shop install the 2 1/4" Magnaflow highflow cat purchased from eBay and a direct fit muffler I purchased from Amazon. The muffler I got is a Walker Quiet Flow SS #53396, according to their website these mufflers have superior flow to stock, after receiving it in the mail I had my doubts. The inlet pipe is about 2" like the stock muffler but the outlet was about 1 1/2", it was a pea-shooter! Installing this muffler made the exhaust quiet while running the header, but power was significantly reduced.


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I had purchased a muffler from a member here a month or so ago, a Vibrant flat black oval. Some videos of hondas running this muffler sounded good, others were pretty loud, today I was going to find out how it sounds in an Elantra. Since I no longer work in a shop that lets me work on my crap I had to drag my welder to a friends house, I didn't want to pay $50 to install a muffler I may not like. To make a long story short, it sounded like A$$. http://youtu.be/W2dSiu6knSs

This left me with a delimma, put the restrictive muffler back in or the stock muffler that sounded just as bad but in a different way. Then I wondered, what if I modified the quiet muffler to flow better? Am I gonna have another loud muffler after doing this? Only one way to find out!


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Whats not shown in the pictures is I also drilled 6 - 3/8" holes in the sides of the new tailpipe thats stuck in the muffler case. This was to allow some flow from the other chamber out the tail pipe without needing to complete the trip through all the chambers. The inner part of the muffler that the new, larger 2" tailpipe was butting against was about 1 3/4", so this would still restrict flow if the exhaust didn't have another path out.

Mission accomplished! I achieved my goal, I got my power back and the muffler is still pretty quiet. It's hardly noticible until I put my foot into it, then it gets loud.. doesn't sound bad at all. I will make a video tomorrow. I've got some other plans for tomorrow, too! Installing a cold air intake and piggyback tuner, should be fun!

[avantegt]

Finally!

I want to hear it O:



You should get more pics of it.

[CaptainSlow]

You should get more pics of it.

It's not looking too good right now, the front of my car was hit... now it needs a front bumper, grill , headlights, and left fender. This was an intentional act by a local meth head that was driving like a crazy person on the highway, apparently I was holding him up by not moving over fast enough for his crazy A$$ (I was doing almost 80). First I thought he was going to ram the back of my car, then he went around me, got in front of me and locked up his brakes! I was expecting a brake-check but I didn't see that one coming. Luckily there was an off duty Police Sergant behind me that witnessed it, as soon as we pulled over 4 cop cars showed up and arrested him, they are charging him with attempted manslaughter among other things. Only in the Central Valley, nothing but meth heads and inbreds! Man, I can't wait till my chick is done with school so we can move back to civilization...

[SilverElantra]

You say like like its any better in the Bay Area. Meth heads are over abundant throughout most of cali now. its getting a bit out of hand.

[ki11er90]

Geeze good thing an off duty cop saw it!

[SuperGLS]

Cool. How much HP does that cat provide?

[CaptainSlow]

Cool. How much HP does that cat provide?

70+HP gains........ Well, that's what the eBay listing said.. lol
I tried driving it with no cat, but every time I came to a stop I was choking on my own exhaust.. not worth it for a car this slow.

Geeze good thing an off duty cop saw it!

It was pretty funny, the first words out of his mouth were " I'm calling the cops on you for running into my car ". About 45 seconds later he was in handcuffs, the look on that dudes face was priceless! I was quite relieved when the guy behind me said he was a cop.

[xAlvarox]

The video is hard to tell how it sounded, but yeah it did sound pretty loud. I hope with the CAI it sounds way better. And 70 ponies from a CAT?? doubt it

[CaptainSlow]

The video is hard to tell how it sounded, but yeah it did sound pretty loud. I hope with the CAI it sounds way better. And 70 ponies from a CAT?? doubt it

C'mon, that was a joke! Guess I'm the only one who found it funny... If you ever look on ebay for "performance" parts you will see many overly exaggerated HP claims. I noticed some OBX Beta overdrive pulleys that claimed a 10-12HP increase, I sent the seller a message asking exactly how an overdrive pulley adds horsepower.. they never replied, lol. I just thought the original question was funny, wasn't too sure if I was being asked how much was gained over removing the 2 stock converters or how much was being gained by installing a cat in place of no cat... 70HP is my generic eBay answer!

[songee623]

70 ponies from that cat could be he is a good size and four strong legs.....lol

[xAlvarox]

70HP is my generic eBay answer!

Yeah i knew that was a joke, but i wasn't sure if you were saying it as a joke or you really thought it was 70hp, sarcasm is hard to tell over the internet though.

[CaptainSlow]

sarcasm is hard to tell over the internet though.

True true... I kinda figured you guys would think, hmm.. he works on cars for a living, this fool has to be joking! Lol.. Moving on.

I shot a video of the exhaust before installing the CAI, the exhaust is pretty quiet so I knew the CAI would overpower it... The first video sounds a little raspy, I guess the phone mic doesn't pic up exhaust noise very well, just ends up sounding like loud noise! This isn't a very acurate representation of how it sounds, it sounds deeper in person. The second video is inside the car and it's a more acurate representation of how it sounds, you will need to turn the volume up for this one, it's pretty quiet. Murtle the Turtle is extra slow today, she has over 200Lbs of stuff in the trunk.. welder, crap load of tools, multiple mufflers, etc...

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I installed the CAI today, took it for a little spin after.. that was well worth the price! I figured it would do better on the top-end, but it has much better all-around power now. I haven't shot video of this yet, need to get the stuff out of my car first.. but here's some pics.


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Next on the list was installing the Unichip B tuner, my phone really didn't want to take pictures under the dash, just too dark. Only managed one decent picture installed...




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I haven't driven the car after completing the tuner install, onlt started it and checked for DTC's. It was getting late, I'll see how she runs in the morning... can't wait!

[avantegt]

Thats sexy sounding!

Tell me how well that tuner works!

[only1db]

why would you need the tuner??

[NovaResource]

^^^ To CoNtRoL aLL daT eXtRa HoRsEpOwEr YO! It GaVe HiM aN eXtRa 103 MoRe WhEeL Hp.

[songee623]

sounds good! just need to do the http://www.elantraxd.com/DIY/chime.php